Mystery plays performed in cycles, explored_________ and were presented by________.

The only character who accompanies Everyman to his grave is...

What significance did the ban on religious drama have on the theatre?

increased focused on classical and secular texts, theatre no longer was a community sponsored event, encouraged the rise of "national" drama, theatre now had to survive on its commercial and artistic merits

While some of his later works experimented with symbolism, Ibsen wrote and helped to establish what style?

This book would prove influential in the development of theories supporting the rise of Realism

Why did Ibsen name the play Hedda Gabler instead of Hedda Tesman?

it helps to establish the ambivalence of her new identity as Tesman's wife, it hearkens back to her more lofty social status (and potential) a General Gabler's daughter, it was her name when she flirted with Lovberg, it is an example of Ibsen's use of every element of the drama to tell his story

What does Hedda fantasize will be in Lovberg's hair when he returns from Brack's party?

How does Hedda make sure that Lovberg's manuscript is never published?

"Today, he ranks second only after Shakespeare as the world's most-performed playwright, a position that testifies to his dramatic art: shocking and novel when it was first presented to audiences, it has stood the test of time."

"Above this sofa stands a portrait of a handsome, elderly man in a general's uniform"

"The sound of two carriages outside the house. The stage is empty. The sound outside get louder."

"Only the blue light of the sky falls upon the house and forestage, the surrounding area shows an angry glow of orange. As more light appears, we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home"

Arthur Miller's original idea for the title of Death of a Salesman....

There is a recurrent musical theme of a flute playing in Death of a Salesman. What connection does Willy have with the flute?

"I believe that the common man is apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as kings were...I think the tragic feeling is evoked in us when we are in presence of a character who is ready to lay down his life, if need to be, to secure on thing - his sense of personal dignity"

"The action should be as complicated and as simple as it is in life. People are eating dinner, just eating dinner... and all the while their happiness is being established or their live are broken up."

"He opens the refrigerator, searches in there, and takes out a bottle of mil. The apartment houses are fading out, ad the entire house and surroundings become covered with leaves. Music insinuates itself as the leaves appear"

"A meadow. An old, lopsided, long-abandoned little chapel; near it a well, large stones that apparently were once tombstones, and an old bench... In the distance a row of telegraph poles... The sun will soon set"

"The stage is empty. There is the sound of doors being locked, then of the carriages driving away. It grows quiet. In the stillness there is the dull thud of an ax on a tree..."

"When I was 17 I walked into the jungle, and when I was 21 I walked out. And by God I was rich."

"And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!"

"Oh, my sins... I've always squandered money like a madwoman, an I married a man who did nothing but amass debts."

"Just think... You grandfather, your great-grandfather, and all your ancestors were serf-owners, possessors of living souls. Don't you see that from every cherry tree... human beings are peering out at you? Don't you hear their voices?"